Just finished a whistle stop at Vancouver. Stayed with our good friends Curtis and Anu in a beautiful neighborhood off commercial. The great thing was that my friend Francisco and his gf Jen literally live 2 blocks away and Andrew Draskoy was also in town and just a 5 min bike ride away.
We hung out with our friends, walked around, re-grouped for our next leg to Japan and saw lots of cats around the neighborhood (including "scareface" who was the most intense cat I ever saw she stared right through your soul in an unfriendly way and had an almost human face!).
I went to the Vancouver School of Music and observed an afternoon of Suzuki violin and viola classes - they were great - I always learn so much by watching other teachers. I now have some new ideas (and reminded ideas) of ear training games. Also saw a fantastic example one- point teaching with a teacher named Mark and practicing new technique across the repertoire. More on this later!
At the airport now - funniest US customs story ever! I *hate* avocados but Peter loves them so he brought a nice ripe one along for lunch. He declared the avocado and we both got shuttled into a secondary check area where all our carry-on got rechecked and his avocado was declared "prohibited"!!! lol!!! This is still making me chuckle. I always knew avocados were evil! possibly the axis of evil goes right through the pit!(he's never living this down!!! :-p)
Gotta go get our flight to LA and onto Tokyo!!!
Evelyn
LOL JUST DIED !!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteomg that was to funny i hate avocados to !!